The Promise of Hate
11.01.2024 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with Kandice Chuh (Professor of English, American Studies, and Critical Social Psychology, CUNY/The Graduate Center)
The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act signed by President Joseph Biden in May 2021 legislatively punctuates the cultural discourse that has so robustly mobilized hate as a political category in recent years. The ubiquity of “Stop Asian Hate” (which, despite its phrasing, generally seems to call for the end of anti-Asian hate) as a slogan announcing solidarity with people of Asian descent, corresponds with the established practice of legislating against hate in the United States. At the same time, the virulent invectives and multiple forms of resurgent and arguably hate-filled anti-Arab and anti-Muslim violence makes clear the differential permissibility of hatred within current U.S. politics and culture. In this talk, Kandice Chuh reflects on the racializing politics and aesthetics of hate. What understandings of race and racism accompany legislative and juridical solutions organized around hate? What does the call for the end of anti-Asian hate look like in relation to anti-Arab racism? By engaging such questions, Chuh hopes to enhance understanding of the grounds of mutuality, solidarity, and reciprocity.Image: Jean Shin's installation Unraveling.
AAVOT Forum Series is organized by Professors Susette S. Min (Dept. of Asian American Studies at UC Davis) and Leti Volpp (Berkeley Law/CRG).
Event hosted by CRG’s Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT), and co-sponsored by the Asian American Research Center.